Release Date: 01/12/99
Genre(s): Pop
No list of the worst in popular music would be complete without a nod to Ms. Spears. This was the album that changed it all. The former Mouseketeer churned out this collection of new pop hooks and covers in early 1999, shedding the clean Disney image for Catholic school girl skirts and her first (failed) attempt at sensuality.
You hate to admit it, but you know all of the words to the title track. Whoever wrote that was a genius, because it became a staple in pop culture. However, the radio singles were the "singles" for a reason, because the rest of the album was completely forgettable. Furthermore, every track's overuse of autotune is not only unprofessional and unimpressive, but flat out annoying at times.
Bubblegum pop nonsense dominates the rest of the album, especially with songs like "Soda Pop" and "Email my Heart." Email my heart? Really? This is a song? It's garbage like this that paved the way for a multitude of other autotune pop artists, like the infamous Justin Bieber. Even her attempts to be serious, like the ballad, "From the Bottom of my Broken Heart," reek of trying to be something else. In later years, we know that Britney found her "voice," but only after she found two divorce lawyers, two kids, and a razor.
Parents, you remember this from your youth. Don't be foolish enough to let your children endure the pain that you did! Any copies of this disc should be collected and burned, and forgotten with other such 90s pop stars as NKOTB, Backstreet Boys, and *N Sync. I know Justin Timberlake would agree.
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